Jamal Chris Rowe is charged with kid napping, burglary and five counts of rape in connection with two women who were sexually assaulted at their homes in east Macon within a day of each other in February 2018, Bibb County Sheriff's investigators Michael Wilson.

The NAACP said the make up of Navicent Health’s executive and management level positions should more closely reflect Macon’s demographics. The organization held a news conference Friday, March 16, 2018.

Sheddrick "Spoon" Risper, head football coach at Westside High School, is competing for a chance to appear in Season 10 of "American Ninja Warrior." Risper has been training for two years and has lost 20 pounds in preparation of his opportunity next month in Miami.

Central City Park will be open March 16-25, 2018, as part of the International Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon, Georgia. Shows include: a human cannonball, motorcycle stunts, and stilt walkers. Shows are free with park admission.

Foster parents John and Kathy Pritchett, who have a family of 16 children, were burned out of their home on Camp Joycliff Road in Jones County on Monday, March 12, 2018. Nine of the kids were at home with their parents when flames broke through the chimney, destroying the house and prompting an outpouring of support from the community.

About 100 students at Howard High School stood in silence in the school's atrium for the National School Walkout at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 14. The 17-minute demonstration for better gun control and safer schools took place in more than 3,1000 schools across America.

Bibb County School Superintendent Curtis Jones and Director of Safety and Security David Gowan explain how the school system is altering policy to increase school safety. Metal detectors are going in Westside High School as a pilot program announced March 13, 2018.

About 50 people marched through Macon in support of the LGBTQ community and rallied for anti-discrimination policies. The event on Saturday, March 10, 2018, encouraged dissent against recently passed Georgia Senate Bill 375 which would allow state-funded child welfare organizations to refuse to place children with same-sex couples based on religious beliefs.

The day after claiming state titles March 8, the Warner Robins High boys basketball team and two members of the Houston County Sharks wheelchair basketball team were celebrated during a "trophy walk" through the hallways of their school.

This episode of the Cop Shop Podcast, our audio journey into Macon-area police report oddities, includes a beer-stealing caper, a woman in a Dollar General wielding a pole, and a Facebook harasser. Narrated by Telegraph reporter Joe Kovac Jr.

A gunman and a man with an ax robbed the Reliance food mart at 3590 Napier Ave. just before 4 AM on Friday, March 9, 2018. They ordered everyone on the floor as the ax-wielding man smashed open gaming machines,Bibb County sheriff’s deputies said.